Holy smokes, they're showing Radiohead's set now! Woot!

No mention of the spoken "NEVER GIVE UP." when you plunk in another quarter to continue after you die?

NEVER GIVE UP.

I thought it was cool, but that was based pretty much solely on the graphics, which were better than a lot of games at the time. (Shading!) I'm sure I never saw the ending because of the absurd difficulty, but then, that's what arcade games were like. Heck, I had to pretty much have at least $5 of quarters ready…

I just (finally) picked up Substance. I don't know how much more JD I'll need, but that's a solid set.

Homer Simpson, smiling politely!

Nightmarish…

Hm, I dunno. I got my copy in college (who didn't?), but it's one of those "why did I feel compelled to buy this?" type of albums, for me. I fully acknowledge Marley's greatness and importance, but at the end of the day, I'm just not a reggae fan. It remains the only example of reggae (minus a few reggae elements…

Weirdly enough, out of that album, the last two "new" songs are the most played. (Maybe because he slowed down enough that I can play along pretty closely on piano, making them tunes I semi-frequently play along to.)

Hm. I'm thinking of all of the other "greatest hits" albums I own. As far as "give me one album of the hits and I won't need anything else by them"—and aside from Bob Marley's Legend—I might half-seriously suggest Journey's Greatest Hits as the epitome of the genre. Petty's is, of course, great—but then he went and…

Aren't we a pair?

Granted.

You know what would be interesting at this point? Sci-fi movies that AREN'T Star Wars.

"The sheer predictability of the offensiveness that makes it boring"

Saw Hunt For the Wilderpeople, which was delightful.

I enjoyed the movie enough when it came out, but don't think much about it anymore.

Tango In the Night was really my first exposure to the band. I got the album when I was in 7th grade or so, probably based on whatever singles had been released. For that reason, I still have a soft spot for the album. I never did get interested enough to thoroughly explore any of the rest of their catalog, other…

There are moments I like—Fame, obviously, and Young Americans, and Win—but the relentless saxaphone, and just the basic sound of the album—all shrieking high end—are tiring over the length of the album. I admire his appreciation of the genre, and his attempt to doing something different, but it's still the low point…

If your gonna play a Rush song for a Republican convention, why not go with The Trees? Probably the most appropriate, thematically.

I've never known quite what to make of G.E. Smith. He seemed an odd choice to play on Roger Waters' The Wall tour, but he did well in the role. I thought maybe he was a Republican when I saw that he played the RNC, but interestingly, he says he isn't. Considering Waters considers himself practically a socialist, it…